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A man from Cou­va, who shot and killed a man af­ter he (the vic­tim) threat­ened his part­ner and her fa­ther, has been sen­tenced to 14 years in prison.

Justin Heera­man was await­ing tri­al for mur­der for over five years be­fore he re­cent­ly en­tered in­to a plea agree­ment with the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) to plead guilty to the less­er of­fence of manslaugh­ter by provo­ca­tion.

Heera­man was sen­tenced by High Court Judge Nali­ni Singh yes­ter­day.